Harper's modern science series

Harper's modern science series

The A B C of RelativityEverybody knows that Einstein has done something astonishing, but very few people...
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Author: Russell, Bertrand,1872-1970
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Language: English
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Harper's modern science series

Harper's modern science series

CHF 12.22 CHF 6.11

Harper's modern science series

CHF 12.22 CHF 6.11
Author: Russell, Bertrand,1872-1970
Format: eBook
Language: English

The A B C of Relativity

Everybody knows that Einstein has done something astonishing, but very few people know exactly what it is that he has done. It is generally recognized that he has revolutionized our conception of the physical world, but his new conceptions are wrapped up in mathematical technicalities. It is true that there are innumerable popular accounts of the theory of relativity, but they generally cease to be intelligible just at the point where they begin to say something important. The authors are hardly to blame for this. Many of the new ideas can be expressed in non-mathematical language, but they are none the less difficult on that account. What is demanded is a change in our imaginative picture of the [Pg 2] worlda picture which has been handed down from remote, perhaps pre-human, ancestors, and has been learned by each one of us in early childhood. A change in our imagination is always difficult, especially when we are no longer young. The same sort of change was demanded by Copernicus, when he taught that the earth is not stationary and the heavens do not revolve about it once a day. To us now there is no difficulty in this idea, because we learned it before our mental habits had become fixed. Einsteins ideas, similarly, will seem easy to a generation which has grown up with them; but for our generation a certain effort of imaginative reconstruction is unavoidable. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67104
Author: Russell, Bertrand
Release Date: Jan 4, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Publication Date: 1925
Publisher Country: United States

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